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VICTORIAN INSPECTORATE ACT 2011 - SECT 73

Charging and arresting a person for contempt

    (1)     If it appears to the Victorian Inspectorate that a person is guilty of contempt, the Victorian Inspectorate may—

        (a)     issue a certificate of charge

              (i)     charging the person with contempt; and

              (ii)     setting out or attaching details of the alleged contempt; and

        (b)     issue an arrest warrant in the prescribed form to arrest the person.

    (2)     An arrest warrant

S. 73(2)(a) substituted by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 179.4(a)).

        (a)     may be directed to a named police officer or all police officers; and

S. 73(2)(b) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 179.4(b)).

        (b)     authorises the police officer or police officers to whom it is directed to arrest the person named in the warrant.

    (3)     A person who is arrested under an arrest warrant

        (a)     is to be brought before the Supreme Court without delay to be dealt with according to law; and

        (b)     may be detained in police custody in the meantime.

S. 74 inserted by No. 19/2012 s. 12, amended by No. 82/2012 s. 53.



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